Whitehead at Harvard : 1924-1925 / edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henning, Brian G., editor.

Petek, Joseph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Science--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Science.

Science--Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 378 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures challenge or confirm previous understandings of Whitehead's published works? What is revealed about the development of Whitehead's thought in the crucial period after London but before the publication of Science and the Modern World? What should we make of concepts and terms that were introduced in these lectures but were never incorporated into subsequent publications? Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, recently gifted to the Critical Edition of Whitehead, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first course of lectures in philosophy than has previously been possible."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface : a brief history of the critical edition of Whitehead / Brian G. Henning

Introduction : tales from the Whitehead mines - on Whitehead, his students and the challenges of editing the critical edition / Joseph Petek

First lecture : September, 1924 / Alfred North Whitehead

Examining Whitehead's 'first lecture : September, 1924' / Paul A. Bogaard

Whitehead and his philosophy of evolution / Paul A. Bogaard

Some clarifications on evolution and time / Maria-Teresa Teixeira

Whitehead's biological turn / Dennis Sölch

Quanta and corpuscles : the influence of quantum mechanical ideas on Whitehead's transitional philosophy in light of The Harvard Lectures / Gary L. Herstein

From physics to philosophy, and from continuity to atomicity / Ronny Desmet

Whitehead's highly speculative lectures on quantum theory / Ronny Desmet

On Herstein's 'quanta and corpuscles' / Ronny Desmet

Reply to Desmet / Gary L. Herstein

Whitehead and Kant at Copenhagen / Jason Bell, Seshu Iyengar

Whitehead's early Harvard period, Hartshorne and the transcendental project / George W. Shields

Footnotes to Plato / Aljoscha Berve

Diagrams and myths / George Allan

How 'eternity' got 'thrown forward' into 'perishing' / Jude Jones

Uncovering a 'new' Whitehead / George R. Lucas, Jr.

Whitehead in class : do the Harvard-Radcliffe course notes change how we understand Whitehead's thought? / Brian G. Henning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1474461352

9781474461351

9781474459426

1474459420

9781474459419

1474459412

OCLC:

1130634236